"Who are you?" asked the little eight and three in unison.

"Bad thoughts, bad thoughts... Old man, I suddenly heard the soup made by the red flame mushroom, and I couldn't hold back for a while, I was really embarrassed. At this time, the three of them also saw the appearance of the rickety figure clearly. This person is dressed in tattered cloth clothes, holding a one-meter-long cane in his hand, and there is not a single hair on his shiny head, but his face looks very ruddy, although he is not as delicate as Lu Youxue, but he is much younger than his peers, if it weren't for that silver beard, he really couldn't determine how old he was.

"Uncle, do you also know the red flame mushroom?" Hearing the old man's words, Onigiri asked with interest.

The old man listened to the rice ball ask himself, and puffed up his chest proudly: "That's, as long as it's about food, there's no old man I don't know." ”

"Wow, sir, you're amazing. I don't know what the names of the ingredients are, can you help me take a look?" asked Fangiri with a wide eye.

The old man stroked his beard slightly, and said, "Okay, for the sake of my soup, I'll help you, and by the way, I can teach you a way to cook them." ”

"Okay!" said that, the rice ball pulled up the old man and walked out, intending to return "no leftovers". Hachi and Lulu also followed behind the two with more interest, one is to protect the rice ball, Hachi knows how amazing the value of the ingredients in the hands of the rice ball is, this has to be sold outside, enough to buy a city, no one will see such a huge wealth and not moved. The second is that Xiaoba also wants to see if this old man is as he said, well-versed in ancient and modern times.

"No leftovers" in a room in the back hall

Hachi, Lulu, and the mysterious old man all opened their mouths wide at this time, looking at the scenery in the room incredulously. I saw that the room was full of various ingredients, and these ingredients were placed in different places by the rice balls. There are so many types, there are nearly 1,000 kinds. The top of these ingredients are shrouded in a layer of light that seems to be absent. This layer of light is obviously the light used to keep the rice balls fresh for the ingredients here. Otherwise, with so many ingredients put together, it will be warm in winter and cool in summer, wouldn't it be easy to spoil.

Hachi is also here for the first time, and although the rice balls have cooked a lot of meals for him before, they are all directly delivered to Hachi's inn, or eaten by a few people in the front hall. So I was a little surprised to see these ingredients, but I didn't expect that a seemingly inconspicuous restaurant would have such a place to store ingredients. It's just that what Xiaoba doesn't know is that the qiē ingredients here are all rice balls, and they have nothing to do with the restaurant.

Even worse than Xiaoba is the mysterious old man, the old man looked at these ingredients, a wisp of saliva at the corner of his mouth slowly lowered, and he didn't slow down for a long time. It was the rice ball that patted him on the shoulder, and the old man sucked the saliva that had slipped three feet away, and after sucking all of them back into his mouth, he let out a heartfelt exclamation: "Little girl, the ingredients in your room are not much better than the palace." ”

"Have you been to the palace?"

"Hmm... I've been there once, but even the palace doesn't necessarily have a complete range of ingredients that you have here, especially a few ingredients that are only available in books, and you have them here, which really makes the old man admire. ”

Fantuan smiled proudly: "Hehe, I like this, so I use all my thoughts to collect ingredients, and naturally collect more." ”

The old man looked at the rice balls: "These ingredients are not just something that can be collected with a lot of effort. At this time, his eyes had become hot when he looked at the rice balls, "Listen to the old man's advice, the insurance facilities here are not good enough, find a safer place to store these ingredients." ”

"No, it's been a long time, and it's not missing anything. Onigiri asked puzzled.

But at this moment, the old man's feelings suddenly changed, and he almost shouted: "How can you not use it! Do you know how important these ingredients are, these ingredients are found by anyone who knows how to cook, and they are willing to take them at the cost of their lives." These ingredients simply encompass all the dreams of a chef!"

Seeing that the old man said it so strictly, and the rice ball was also beautiful against the old man, he reluctantly agreed.

After some time, the old man finally calmed down.

"I was a little out of shape just now, but these ingredients really have to be disposed of properly, otherwise even if it is an old man, I will only barely suppress the idea of robbing here. But there's no guarantee that after I'm gone, one day I won't be able to hold back and come back and empty your place. The old man said his thoughts unabashedly, but Hachi reduced his wariness of the old man, and the person who dared to say his thoughts was at least not a sinister villain.

The old man continued, "You don't know any ingredients, take them out and show them to the old man." I guess it's not these ingredients here. Seeing how well you've planned, it's clear that you know what they're all for. ”

"Well, it's these. As he spoke, the light flashed on his hand, and several ingredients appeared on the table beside him. They are a fish with brown tiger stripes on its back, a white belly with dense spikes on it. There is also a mushroom-like look, but it is very inconspicuous, black, and looks small and dirty.

The last one is roughly round, like a hat. When Hachi saw these three things, he made up his mind, "Abalone, pufferfish, matsutake mushroom, it turns out that rice balls picked these three." "After receiving the huge amount of information from the training base in the seventh district, of course Hachi knows everything about the items awarded, how can there be any prizes from others, but the awarders don't know?

When the old man saw these three things, his pupils also shrank, he first picked up the matsutake mushroom, put it in front of his nose and smelled it, then carefully observed it, and even secretly broke off a little bit of dregs, put it in his mouth and tasted it. In the end, he seemed to have decided on something, and said to the rice ball, this should be matsutake mushroom.

Hearing the old man's answer, Xiao Hachi raised his eyebrows, this old man was really a little knowledgeable, but he didn't expect to be recognized by him. You know, this is not a product of this civilization.

When the rice ball heard it, he was also quite excited, and while muttering matsutake mushrooms in his mouth, he carefully picked them up and played with them. At this time, the old man picked up a second abalone and began to look at it in the same way as before. This time it took longer, as if I was desperately flipping through my brain. After a long time, he said, "This should be a duck." ”

Xiaoba's eyes lit up again, the original name of the abalone was 鰒, this old man is really unusual. Fangian was also quite excited, and she shouted, "The old man is amazing, come on, come on, what's the last one?"

The old man wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the fish with thorns on his belly, stared at it for a long time, and finally sighed and said, "I'm sorry, I really can't do anything about this fish." ”

After hearing this, Fantuan said with some disappointment: "Didn't you recognize the two before?"

The old man grinned embarrassedly and said, "I won't tell you, I also saw the introduction of those two in an ancient book before." What is recorded in that ancient book is some ingredients from ancient times, but the damage is very strict. But those two things happen to be recorded in them, so I can roughly say one or two. And this fish, perhaps, is in those lost pages, but it is no longer verifiable. I'm ashamed to say that today is the first time I've seen these three ingredients..."